Shipping-package.



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ALFRED HENRY HANCE SACK, OF KALKASKA, MICHIGAN.

SHIPPING-PACKAGE.

srncrrrcnfrmnfofming part of Letters Patent No. 651,726, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed February Z0, 1900. Serial No. 5 ,988. (No model.)

.To all whom, zit 11i/Cty concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED HENRY HANCE SACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalkaska, in the county of Kalkaska and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Packages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to packages for shipping perishable goods and liquids, and relates more particularlyto a tank or cylinder of such construction as will best adapt it to accomplish the objects of my invention, which are, first, to provide a tank of non-corrosive material that can be manufactured at small cost and that shall be convertible for handling different classes of goods-such as liquids, which require wooden packages, and meats, &c., that are best transported in metal packages-and at the same time be simple in construction, and, second, to provide a metal cylinder having removable and reversible ends that permit the contents of the package to be readily inspected from either end and to provide for the metal cylinder a removable inner wooden lining so arranged as to form, together with the reversible ends, a shippingtank that may be used convertibly for liquids or solid perishable goods, as above stated.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, throughout the several views of which similar letters and characters of reference designate corresponding parts and devices.

In the drawings, Figure l is a View of the cylinder, broken away in parts, the heads or ends being removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of one head. Fig. 3 is a top view of the head. Fig. 4 shows the key or handle for removing the heads.

shell is a removable wooden lining 3, cylindrical in form, which fits the interior of the shell l. This lining may be built up after the manner of a barrel, bound with hoops, or in any suitable manner.

Two heads or ends 4 and 5 are provideda In practiceI prefer to make these ends by first pressing sheet metal into the form of a pan 4, that fits the interior of the metal shell 1, and then to coat the pan so formed with zinc. A circular piece of wood 4b ts into the metal pan 4fL and is secured by zinc-coated rivets 4. A screw-thread 4l is preferably pressed into the rim of the pan 4a, and a corresponding thread is provided at each end of the cylinder I to receive it.

Two pairs of holes 6 and 7 are provided for each head, one pair on each side, and adapted to receive corresponding projections 6 of the key or handle, Fig. 4, by which the heads may be unfastened or tightened. Outer stiftening or projecting strips 8, secured together and bound to the cylinder I by straps 9, as shown in Fig. l, are provided when the packages are shipped with rough freight, the strips 8 serving to prevent damage to the metal cylinder from accidental blows.

By means of the devices above described I produce a shipping-tank that is not bulky and is strong and of light weight, thus effecting a saving infreight. The metal case is germpurities from the air. There is no evaporation of the contents of the package, for the head, after being screwed in place, may be hermetically sealed around the threads with Wax or paraflin. The inner wood lining may be provided at its ends with suitable gaskets, if desired, and the wooden heads 4b when screwed down make tight joints with the ends of the wood lining,thus forming a removable wooden tank within the outer air-tight casing. As above noted, liquids of various sorts maybe shipped in the inner wooden lining, and when the lining is removed the metal cylinder may be used to ship butter, meats, duc.

The convertible shipping-package herein described, comprising in combination a cylinproof and odor-proof and will not absorb imdricalinetl shell*threadedfat.bothends; fef` fouten shell, all rranged-substantiztlly as dei ver-sible heads formed of pressed sheet metal .scribed and for the purposes setvforth. I and threaded to screw into the ends of the In testimony whereof I affix my signature nietel shell, said heads being lined on one side in' presence of two Witnesses.

with Wood; together with an independent I e- ALFRED HENRY HNCE SACK. movable Wooden cylinderl adapted to lit within Witnesses: A the metal shell and togethel.` with said heads' P. N. VAN HANDEL,'

to form a Wood-lined receptacle within the NELSON OUMMINGS- 

